Pranav Madhukar

Pranav Madhukar is the co-founder of Meteor, an artificial intelligence-powered web browser startup, and is currently based in Seattle, Washington. He is on a formal leave of absence from his undergraduate computer science studies at the University of Washington to focus entirely on developing the platform. Prior to launching this venture, Madhukar secured $150,000 in university funding to support student builders and executed several viral technology projects across the campus. His company, Meteor, was selected to participate in the Y Combinator Summer 2025 accelerator batch to scale its operations and engineering efforts. The startup utilizes agentic artificial intelligence to function as an automated personal assistant, aiming to challenge the market dominance of established leaders like Google Chrome. Madhukar maintains a primary technical focus on integrating advanced machine learning capabilities directly into core web infrastructure to modernize consumer internet browsing.